Thanks to everyone who took part in the code-freeze, monthly bug stomp, or directly making the release. This release is made in conjunction with GeoServer 2.10-RC1.

As a release-candidate, 16-RC1 is not intended for production systems, however the API is stable and we invite everyone to try upgrading their applications, report any issues, and help out with the final round of testing and fixing:

The library now defaults to using PreventLocalEntityResolver with XML parsers for improved security. For more details (and how to disable this behavior) please see the GeoTools user guide.

The gt-wfs-ng client is taking over; please try it out with your Web Feature Services.

CSS now supports rendering transformations.

For more information please see the release notes (16-RC1 | M0 | beta).

About GeoTools 16

The wfs-ng module is now a drop in replacement and will be replacing gt-wfs

This release is also available from our Maven repository. This release is made in conjunction with GeoWebCache 1.9.2 and GeoServer 2.9.2. We would like to thank those who have contributed fixes and features to this release.

GeoTools 15.2 is the latest stable release of the 15.x series and is recommended for all new projects.

Security considerations:

The library now defaults to using PreventLocalEntityResolver for improved security. For more details (and how to disable this behavior) please see the GeoTools user guide.